Retro road trip - Haynes Motor Museum - pics added

So, what can I say about the Haynes Motor Museum, well, it's a long old drive there and back! Nearly 400 miles round trip all told but as the weather was a bit iffy and not much else on the agenda to do, it seemed like a perfect day for it

It's £14 to get in and if you gift aid your entrance fee you get unlimited free re-admission for 12 months. Not sure I will ever get round to going again, but it seemed a nice touch. Inside it's pretty much as you'd expect a car museum to be, with an eclectic mix of cars from all eras, I didn't photo all of them, a lot of the vintage pre-war stuff doesn't really interest me, but I've included some personal highlights and a link to the rest

Triumph Vitesse and Triumph 2000 - this one photo encompasses about 20 years of my dads motoring history, I forget how many he had of each but it was a few, before he moved onto Fords. It's a shame he's not still around to come and see things like this with me.



Dolomite Sprint - I don't know why, I just like them, first production car to have 4 valves per cylinder, first with alloy wheels as standard? A friends dad had one and always raved about it when we were kids, but then, he would, wouldn't he...



XJ220 and Lamborghini Countach - poster childs for all people around my age when we were growing up no doubt. I have a large model of it I bought when I had my paper round, £80, my dad leant me the money and I paid him back £5 a week that I earned, it still has pride of place to this day.

For some reason the Jag had its engine missing, hopefully not stolen for a metro...



The Mini, there is actually an entire room devoted to the mini and its various stages and incarnations. I recently had a blast in my mates and they are just so good. At 6'6" it's quite an undignified spectacle getting in and out, but it's easily the most fun car I've ever driven



Yank Tank Convertible hard top - I just love American thinking, how can we make a convertible hard top, engineer an impossibly complex folding roof mechanism? No, just make the back of the car long enough to house the roof complete - sorted



Dodge Charger - because, Dodge Charger



1931 Duesenburg - have to be honest, I'd never heard of it, but on some exhibits they have 'top trump' interesting fact cards. I thought the current valuation to be interesting, and then stepped away from it slowly

Also interesting because, if anything, I thought their valuations on other cars were wildly conservative





The rest can be found here once they finish uploading, all in all, for £14, it's a damn good day out. They also have some things to keep the kids entertained if you have them, a great cafe and gift shop. I was suitably impressed

And if it's not enough to fill an entire day, you have the Fleet Air Arm museum just down the road which is also fantastic, though I didn't have time to do that as well this time

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